The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
This compilation bundles the following games: The House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast) The House of the Dead III (Xbox) Both games were ported to the Wii with support for the Wii Zapper peripheral. A new Extreme…
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is a shooter developed by H.I.C., released 11 March 2008 on Wii.
What The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is a shooter game developed by H.I.C. and released in 2008. It was published by Sega. It is available on Wii only. It runs on Sega Chihiro.
The premise, in the publisher's words
HotD2: The game follows the fictional events of February 26, 2000, fourteen months after the 1998 Curien Mansion incident in The House of the Dead. AMS agent G has gone missing and his last known location is Venice, Italy. The city of Venice becomes chaotic when a strange zombie breakout takes place. American AMS agents James Taylor and Gary Stewart are dispatched, along with Amy Crystal and Harry Harris, to investigate and evacuate the populace. They suddenly encounter the impish Zeal, who had recently dealt with G. Upon finding G alive but wounded, James and Gary converse with him and G gives them a field journal showing the bosses and weak points. The pair are then met with a massive…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The House of the Dead series
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return is the tenth of 36 entries we hold in the The House of the Dead series. The next entry was Sega Superstars Tennis in 2008. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is The House of the Dead: Overkill at 82.
How it was received
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return launched on 11 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Condemned 2: Bloodshot and Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath.
Cheats and codes
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